This winter I am working in conjunction with writer and poet Martha Donovan from Mt. Desert Island in Maine. Martha, an instructor of writing at the College of the Atlantic, is documenting her life with daily photos of the island, and I am using some of these as inspiration for paintings. We talk about the paintings, share ideas about the imagery, then she writes poetry in response to the painted images. It's a sort of "call and response" process between dear, old friends.